Undergraduate Technical StaffOn-Campus Part Time Semester & Full Time Summer Position

UMIACS is seeking highly motivated undergraduate students to work as part of
its technical staff. The UMIACS technical staff provides network and system
administration, helpdesk support, deploys and maintains hardware, software,
and information systems, and research support for The Institute's 80+ faculty
and 1200+ computer network environment.

Student responsibilities start with providing frontline technical support to
users, setting up new hardware, removing old hardware, and the physical
installation of support infrastructure. With time on the job and experience
student responsibilities can grow to include planning, design, configuration,
and maintenance of advanced hardware, software, and network components.
Students are exposed to a wide variety of operating systems, development tools,
and applications. Opportunities exist for highly motivated students to work
closely with our research programs and related emerging technologies.

Our student staff positions are pre-professional positions that will help
anyone hoping to pursue a career in many of the computer related fields.
Highly motivated students will get the opportunity to have hands on experience
with many enterprise level systems that would otherwise be unavailable to them.
Many of our former student staffers have found that their experiences have
helped them with their later course work. Additionally our positions provide
great flexibility in scheduling to make it easier for student to meet their
academic commitments.

Candidates should be well versed in basic computer use, familiar with basic
computer hardware and software setup and configuration, have a strong desire to
learn, and be capable of handling a fast paced environment. Advanced
administrative experience is not required, but candidates with enterprise
Linux or Windows experience are encouraged to apply.